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Look Ma, this is how the Internet works!

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro

June 1, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. The blurb from Goodreads: An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking–and why we all need to understand it. It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used, and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott J. Shapiro draws […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: audiobooks, computer science, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, hackers, Hacking, Scott J. Shapiro, technology, the internet

narfna's CBR15 Review No:54 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: audiobooks, computer science, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, hackers, Hacking, Scott J. Shapiro, technology, the internet ·
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Hacker Adventure with a Kitty

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

August 5, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Bingo 11 Book Club In preparation for CBR book club in September, I picked up Alif the Unseen; I chose this one since I’d already read one of the other options (The Bear and the Nightingale) and I picked up the other option off the library shelf, flipped through it, and decided ‘Nope, not my style, this writing would drive me nuts’. Having now read Alif the Unseen, I have to say, good job whoever suggested this. In some ways, the story reminded me of […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: adventure, Alif the Unseen, arabian folklore, book club, cbr13bingo, G Willow Wilson, hackers, hacktivism, jinn

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:68 · Genres: Book Club, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction · Tags: adventure, Alif the Unseen, arabian folklore, book club, cbr13bingo, G Willow Wilson, hackers, hacktivism, jinn ·
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The queen’s private hacker

Cress (The Lunar Chronicles book 4) by Marissa Meyer

April 29, 2019 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This is the third book in the Lunar Chronicles series.  At the end of the last book, we got the whole gang together (Cinder, Thorn, Scarlet, and Wolf) to try and overthrow Queen Levana.  They decided to enlist the help of the queen’s own hacker named Cress.  Cinder and Thorn are most wanted fugitives, so they need all the help they can get. They find out about Cress, who is trapped in a satellite and under the thumb of Levana’s thomiturge (literally no clud how […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: hackers, Lunars, Marissa Meyer, satellite

kfishgirl's CBR11 Review No:14 · Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: hackers, Lunars, Marissa Meyer, satellite ·
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Witches and Hackers and Robots. Oh My!

January 2, 2017 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

Dark Magic – Witches, Hackers, & Robots – A Short Story Anthology edited by Emma Nelson and Hannah Smith, 2016 This anthology truly gives you your money’s worth. At over 26 stories, it provides exactly what it promises – stories about Witches, Hackers, and Robots. The strange juxtaposition of these categories is intriguing and delightful to read. I won’t review every story but I will say a few words about most of them. When I originally wrote the individual summaries and reviews, I found myself […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: Anthology, Editors, Emma Nelson and Hannah Smith, fantasy, hackers, horror, robots, science fiction, short stories, witches

sabian30's CBR9 Review No:2 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: Anthology, Editors, Emma Nelson and Hannah Smith, fantasy, hackers, horror, robots, science fiction, short stories, witches ·
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A scary, political, techno-thrilling ride of a book.

March 6, 2015 by narfna 1 Comment

I think I might be too stupid to write this review. Long story short: This book was a hell of a ride. It was slightly problematic as a novel, but damn if it wasn’t powerful anyway. It should probably be required reading. Long story long? Weeeeeellll. That’s when my brain starts to make whirring and booping noises and then I want to put my laptop away and go to sleep. Or eat a milkshake. Either one of those things, really. Marcus Yallow is a seventeen […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: children of the revolution, cory doctorow, cyberpunk, hackers, little brother, narfna, near future, police state, sci-fi, techno-thriller, Young Adult

narfna's CBR7 Review No:29 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: children of the revolution, cory doctorow, cyberpunk, hackers, little brother, narfna, near future, police state, sci-fi, techno-thriller, Young Adult ·
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